About the IMPACT Awards

The IMPACT Awards recognize North Texas start-up companies that are bringing innovative technologies to market that will impact our world. The awards are handed out in three categories:

Environment – Recognizing companies that will solve our environmental problems by creating cleaner energy sources, reducing or eliminating waste, and improving the efficiency of current systems.

Community – Recognizing companies that are providing solutions for our society and global community by enhancing our connectivity and communication, improving education, and increasing safety & security.

Health – Recognizing companies that will improve our health and wellness by developing better prevention and treatments, creating methods for earlier detection and more accurate diagnosis, and improving healthcare and delivery.

Winners of the IMPACT Awards will be recognized at the IMPACT Awards Luncheon on May 23, 2012. In addition, winners receive professional videos.  They, as well as the Finalists, have one-page profiles in the IMPACT Awards publication. The publication is distributed to all Fort Worth Business Press subscribers.

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Guest Speaker Clyde A. Higgs, Vice President for Business Devolpment, Castle & Cooke, Inc.

Event will be held at UNT Health Science Center, 3400 Camp Bowie Blvd., Center of r BioHealth, Room CBH220.

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by Rafe Needleman May 2, 2012 1:36 pm PDT

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Are we in a technology bubble? From the looks of things here, we may well be. The city that hosts Google, Evernote, and Pinterest hosted its first open-air startup festival today, attached to the annual Startup Conference. Although churros, cotton candy, and midway games were lacking, the carnival atmosphere was not.

Inside at the Mountain View Center for the Performing Arts, next door to City Hall, 600 conference attendees listened to talks from investors like Dave McClure and panels on topics like crowdsourcing. Outside, organizer Alain Reynaud had set up a festival where, he said, he was trying to replicate the atmosphere of the art and wine festivals he enjoys in the wine country to the north of Silicon Valley.

The Startup Conference is in its third year, but this is the first with the accompanying outdoor event. Reynaud says he has support from the city — Mayor Michael Kasperzak was in attendance — and next year he wants to close down Castro Street in front of City Hall and really blow it out.

As to the startups pitching in the tents, I don’t think there was a Pinterest-level company among them, but some of the ideas were interesting, aggressive, and definitely opportunistic.

In that last category, opportunistic, the award goes to VentureDocs, which pitches as a “Legal Zoom for startups.” CEO Bo Sartain says that his document-construction service, at $400 for a basic package for incorporation paperwork, costs a startup 10 percent or less than what it would cost to go through a law firm. But VentureDocs will also help you find a lawyer (probably not a bad idea). Sartain came to the Startup Conference street fair, he told me, since “these are all my potential customers.”

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FWLSC events, which are usually held quarterly at Arts 5th Avenue in the Fairmount Southside National Historic District of Fort Worth, are educational in nature and focus on diverse Life Sciences-related issues.

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Tuesday April 10, 2012 from 11:30 AM to 1:00 PM CDT
This monthly luncheon is designed to cover topics that directly impact the success and growth of technology entrepreneurs. This luncheon is sponsored by TCU – Neeley School of Business. NOTE: no vegetarian meals will be ordered unless specifically requested.

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